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A color illustration of a man rappelling with a sheep on a rope.
Sheep Hunting

Treacherous Country, Mischievous Horses, and One Missing Ram Turned Our DIY Sheep Hunt into a Rodeo

By Robert M. Hobbs

A photo of freeing a horse from muskeg
Sheep Hunting

A Plane Crash, a Car Wreck, and Bogged Horses: How My Wife and I Turned the Worst Hunt of Our Lives into the Best

By Pete Kollar

Two photos of rams.
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Back When Odds of Drawing a $10 Desert Bighorn Tag Were 1 in 7, My Wife Enlisted Me as Her Guide

By Robert V. Broadbent

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It Took Me Decades to Draw a Bighorn Sheep Tag — But It Was Well Worth the Wait

By Andrew McKean

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Sheep Hunting

Hunting Sheep In the Yukon Has Been a Dream Adventure for Generations. But That Opportunity May Be Fading

By Alex Robinson

A hunter's pickup truck caught fire in the desert.
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I Drew an Incredible Sheep Tag. It Turned into the Hunt from Hell, Even Before Our Truck Caught Fire

By Jim Zumbo

an illustration of a sheep hunter falling down a slope
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This Happened to Me: I Almost Froze to Death on a Solo Bighorn Hunt

By Cassidy Caron, as told to Scott Einsmann

Two hunters with a pending North Dakota record ram.
Sheep Hunting

North Dakota Hunter Tags Pending Record Bighorn with the Current Record-Holder by His Side

By Kris Millgate

A watercolor of a bighorn ram on a cliff.
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I Nearly Died Trying to Recover My Bighorn Ram, But I Couldn’t Leave Him on the Mountain

By Steve Coy with Larry Mueller

A blue illustration of bighorns.
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I Drew a Rare Desert Bighorn Tag, and Killed One of the Biggest Rams in the State

By Tim Kelly

A sheep hunter slips and falls as he decides he can't make it to the sheep.
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I Finally Drew a Bighorn Sheep Tag. I Was Too Out of Shape to Fill It

By John F. Lane, as told to Charles Elliott

Alex Robinson packs out sheep with one of the best hunting backpacks.
Sheep Hunting

The Best Hunting Backpacks, Chosen by the Editors

By The Editors

An illustration of a little bush plane in front of big mountains
Sheep Hunting

My Wife and I Crashed Our Plane While Sheep Hunting. It Was Worth It

By Aubrey Taylor, as told to Hiram Savage

A large herd of aoudad move across the Texas landscape.
Sheep Hunting

Texas Adds Aoudad to the List of Animals You Can Hunt from Helicopters

By Alice Jones Webb

A sheep hunter leaps across a waterfall high in the mountains.
Sheep Hunting

My Bush Plane Crashed. I Went Sheep Hunting Anyway

By Donald L. Jenkins

A bowhunter in white draws on a bighorn
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I Arrowed the World-Record Bighorn with a $25 Sheep Tag

By Ray Alt

A Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep stands atop a ridge.
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$1.3 Million Bighorn Sheep Tag Sets Record for Most Expensive Auction Tag Ever

By Dac Collins

An illustration of bighorn rams in Oregon.
Sheep Hunting

I Thought My Once-in-a-Lifetime Hunt Was a Bust. Then I Killed the Biggest Bighorn Ever Taken in Oregon

By Windell W. Winterbottom

Fred bear stone sheep
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Fred Bear Took His World-Record Stone Sheep with the ‘Best Shot I’ll Ever Make’

By Fred Bear, as told to Byron W. Dalrymple

A hunter in a wide-brimmed hat kneeling behind a gray desert bighorn.
Sheep Hunting

Carmichel in Arizona: How to Hunt an Inaccessible Desert Bighorn

By Jim Carmichel